Women move mountains EVERY SINGLE DAY yet receive zero credit for it.
Do you remember the age you got your period? Do you remember how it felt to be a little girl, now having to bleed 1x/month? Do you remember the excruciating cramps, the sleepless nights, begging for just one night for the cramps to stop? Probably too young to take painkillers, so you toughed it out. Your mom tells you "this is what women need to deal with." You go to school, hiding your period. While your body is screaming in pain, but you have to pretend everything is normal. You constantly check to make sure you are not bleeding through your clothes, so no one will notice. This would be something you would have to manage for the rest of your life. Silently.
Women navigate everything on a daily basis. We don't get an off day. We don't get to collapse when we get a cold. We don't get to weaponize incompetence, because we are viewed as the default servant. We don't get to say our periods are causing us debilitating pain that is comparable to the pain of a heart attack. We are expected to manage everyone's emotions. While being told we are the emotional ones. When we pursue advanced degrees and enter male dominated careers, we are told we must have slept our way to the top. It is our responsibility to protect ourselves from predators, as they cannot control themselves. When we are abused, the blame is first towards us. What did we do to provoke the assailant? Women are at default at fault.
I say this to say, women we carry the world on our shoulders, every fucking day. We operate through the pain, the discomfort, the accusations and the abuse. We are told we are not fit to be leaders, not capable as the men. No man would survive a single day in our shoes. Men don't fear rape, date rape drinks, being followed at night, having their significant other beat the shit out of them over a fight, risk pregnancy and then abandoned to raise the child alone. Men live life on fucking remedial mode. Every single woman lives her life in survival mode.
When did you notice your light being dimmed being compared to a male and how did you claim it again?